The Superstition of Divorce: An Essays Classic By G. K. Chesterton! AAA+++

With his usual wit and common sense, G.K. Chesterton has written a masterpiece on the subject of marriage and the home against the backdrop of the "superstition" of divorce. Somehow we think that a law court and a piece of paper can change the irrevocable nature of the marriage vow. As Chesterton aptly demonstrates marriage is an eternal promise between a man and woman and "that this rash and romantic operation is the only furnace from which can come the plain hardware of humanity, the cast-iron resistance of citizenship or the cold steel of common sense;" Those who want divorce really want everything and in so doing spoil the power of choice. "They are not crying for the moon, which is a definite and therefore a defensible desire. They are crying for the world; and when they had it, they would want another one.